tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post8957262760688157787..comments2011-04-27T09:37:58.365-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: HL: BorgesAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-73657832229174658852011-04-16T16:27:56.278-07:002011-04-16T16:27:56.278-07:00I really like the paragraph that where you discuss...I really like the paragraph that where you discuss Danielewski&#39;s true meaning behind referencing the Borges&#39;&amp; Cervantes&#39; texts and how he uses these texts to warn readers of falsehoods &amp; things that are not exactly how they appear.<br /><br />Good essay overall, but I definitely think that you should expand on the part about Navidson reading House of Leaves. I found this to be extremely interesting. Why did it set off a red flag? You may even be able to work in a part about how this section is Borges influenced and the idea of an infinite loop is played with.Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00706747786607943612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-44472037558281726422011-04-16T11:31:16.481-07:002011-04-16T11:31:16.481-07:00I have two primary comments.
First, your discussi...I have two primary comments.<br /><br />First, your discussion of what we can/should get out of D&#39;s reading of B&#39;s reading of C is certainly competent, but it&#39;s a little on the generic side - if you were going to stick relatively close to what we discussed in class (and there&#39;s nothing wrong with that, incidentally), you could have kept it a little shorter. Why?<br /><br />Because your actual discussion of a later part of the text is extremely interesting and promising - that was a great choice, because some kind of self-referentiality is involved both in DQ and HOL (and also, in different ways, in Borges). So you&#39;ve picked the perfect moment in the text to analyze, but you only actually do so in an incomplete way - you&#39;re urging at the end that readers dig deeper for meanings, without seeming to really do so yourself.<br /><br />That&#39;s not the end of the world, but trimming down the first part would have let you get farther in the second part.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com